TY - CHAP
T1 - Significances of Nanostructured Hydrogels for Valuable Applications
AU - Varaprasad, Kokkarachedu
AU - Sadiku, Emmanuel Rotimi
AU - Ramam, Koduri
AU - Jayaramudu, Jaragula
AU - Reddy, G. Siva Mohan
N1 - Funding Information:
The author KVP is extremely thankful to Prof. Dr. Rotimi Sadiku of Tshwane University of Technology’s Department of Polymer Technology, South Africa, for his valuable scientific discussions in several areas and proofread of this chapter. FONDECYT and CONICYT, Chile is greatly acknowledged for their financial support with the Fondecyt Postdoctoral Project No. 3130748 (KVP) and Fondecyt Regular Project No. 1110583 (KR).
PY - 2013/12
Y1 - 2013/12
N2 - Nanostructured hydrogels represent a unique class of materials that synergizes the advantageous features of hydrogels. Research into nanostructured hydrogels for biomedical applications has seen great progress in recent years owing to their unlimited potential to advance human health. The development of nanotechnology provides opportunities to characterize, manipulate, and organize matter systematically at the nanometer scale. This is because nanostructured systems in general and nanostructured polymer hydrogels in particular have noble advantages as transporters for a wide range of drugs and tissue engineering scaffolds for biomedical (therapeutic) applications. This chapter explains the design and development of different nanostructured hydrogels and their applications in the biomedical field.
AB - Nanostructured hydrogels represent a unique class of materials that synergizes the advantageous features of hydrogels. Research into nanostructured hydrogels for biomedical applications has seen great progress in recent years owing to their unlimited potential to advance human health. The development of nanotechnology provides opportunities to characterize, manipulate, and organize matter systematically at the nanometer scale. This is because nanostructured systems in general and nanostructured polymer hydrogels in particular have noble advantages as transporters for a wide range of drugs and tissue engineering scaffolds for biomedical (therapeutic) applications. This chapter explains the design and development of different nanostructured hydrogels and their applications in the biomedical field.
KW - Biomedical
KW - Nanostructured hydrogels
KW - Nanotechnology
KW - PH-sensitive hydrogels
KW - Polymer blends
KW - Self-assembly
KW - Solid state shear pulverization
KW - Stereocomplexed hydrogels
KW - Therapeutic
KW - Thermosensitive hydrogels
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84903659539&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/B978-1-4557-3159-6.00008-0
DO - 10.1016/B978-1-4557-3159-6.00008-0
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84903659539
SN - 9781455731596
SP - 273
EP - 298
BT - Nanostructured Polymer Blends
PB - Elsevier Inc.
ER -
